Re: from Greg Palast [fact check failure]

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's clear you have no interest in discussing this fairly, nor
answering my very clear question, and are simply intent on smearing
Palast.  I made no reference to a graph, merely to your accusation
that Palast was factually wrong in his assertion about the oil being
intended for California, now being shut off.

You launch into an attack on me and make the outrageous claim that
a journalist is merely intended to "report the facts".  Apparently
sifting through facts is too much for you to avoid calling him
"Geraldo".

Yes, obviously, he implies gasoline, and there is nothing that you
have provided that shows in the least that he was wrong in his
implications.

And yet, you do get around to saying that he may be right after all,
but that doesn't matter now, because you have shifted to complain
about other irreleventia.  He made no comparison of relative prices
of California oil to other US locations, merely that an important
source would be shut off.  Perhaps this is true, as you concede now,
or perhaps it is not, but he was not in any way misleading.

Your ugly, baseless slanders really have no place on this list.


Bill